Retail

Online file sharing portal FileFront is to be closed by current owner and former 1UP publisher Ziff Davis, it has been confirmed. A message posted up on the site reads: We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront …

This week in Retail Biz, Granger Games has opened the first of four new stores as GAME wins best specialist at the Oracle Retail Week Awards.Elsewhere, the DSi has hit two million units sold in Japan, February’s NPD data was released for all to see, and the new Woolworths expects …

Leading UK High Street games specialist GAME has been crowned The Speciality Retailer of the Year winner at last night’s Oracle Retail Week Awards 2009. It beat off competition in the category from the likes of Pets at Home, Ann Summers, La Senza, HMV and Majestic Wine. The gaming industry …

Whilst we’re still waiting for the exact sales figures of Rockstar’s recently released Grand Theft Auto IV DLC The Lost and the Damned, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has said that the content has outperformed much of its boxed opposition. The Lost and the Damned is the most successful …

Retail giants Play.com and GAME have benefited from a sales surge following last week’s BAFTA video game awards. Play.com smashed its target for new customers for the week, with a 14 per cent increase in new customers over the firm’s target figures. Meanwhile, GAME Group’s COO Terry Scicluna told MCV …

New Euro publisher Gamebridge has revealed details of its first releases. Each will come to market in collaboration with sales and distribution partner Rising Star, as revealed in MCV last week. The first game due from the publisher in the UK is Happy Bakery for Nintendo DS on May 29th. …

High Street sales in the nation’s capital have continued to buck the nationwide retail slump, with like-for-like sales climbing 5.9 per cent in February – a stark contrast to the national year-on-year 1.8 per cent decline seen across the UK. The news continues the trend seen in January, with like-for-like …

EA Montreal has announced it is currently developing Army Of Two: The 40th Day. The game is a direct sequel to the 2008 original, once again focusing on co-operative shooting action. It is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP this winter. The 40th Day will be set …

Flying in the face of the wallet-tightening global credit crunch, it has been revealed that the full-price, complete band kit SKU of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero: World Tour has to date outsold both of its cheaper SKU rivals in North America. Click here to read more over on CasualGaming.biz.

Catalogue retail specialist Argos has posted sales figures above what most were expecting, stating that whilst the year ahead will be tough it expects to maintain a strong position on the High Street. For the eight weeks until the end of 2008, Argos saw like-for-like sales decline 1.6 per cent. …